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OpenOffice: A legal Trojan horse--but for whom? (ZDNet)

OpenOffice: A legal Trojan horse--but for whom? (ZDNet)

Posted Sep 22, 2004 17:01 UTC (Wed) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
Parent article: OpenOffice: A legal Trojan horse--but for whom? (ZDNet)

WELL IT'S TIME TO FORK Ooo.

There are plans to switch the GUI, that in the orignal Oo just really sucks anyway. That will teach SUN that to be part of a community, you just cant sell to the enemy in name of business,... specialy when is that enemy that is preventing everybody from making decent business,... to the point that even StarOffice and SUN will suffer someday.

I belive that everybody in this community just always wanted to pass by of Microsoft... but if it happens to pass in front of Microsoft(or SUN), it will be because of merit, and merit only. I belive the community dont need enemys, dont need more anty-trust law suits,... but Microdoft always seemed to get "help" and enough 'DIRTY TRICKS' to stay an enemy of EVERYBODY. Its a pitty that SUN forgets so quickly about that, and is willing to follow the footsteps of SCO...

Remember what is happening to SCO ?, facing the grave ?,... that is what always has happened with whom has dealed with Microsoft in large scall, and when Microsoft as no longer need of that partner.


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OpenOffice: A legal Trojan horse--but for whom? (ZDNet)

Posted Sep 23, 2004 7:34 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Fork OOo?? What army of coders would do this? I'm afraid you seriously underestimate the size of this task. Browse around the source tree some time -- it's daunting. The itch probably is not big enough to warrant that much scratching.

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